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Fall at the Farmhouse

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Hey, ya’ll! Today, I’m sharing my fall home tour with five other bloggers in this year’s Fall Home Tours hosted by Marty from A Stroll Thru Life. If you’re popping over from 11 Magnolia Lane or another stop on the tour or from anywhere else, welcome!

I’m going to be brutally honest today.

Rug / Sofa (similar) / Ottoman / Botanical Art Prints / TV Stand / Nailhead Wing Chairs / Red Pillows

While I absolutely love this time of the year – it’s my favorite by far, it can often make me feel a little inadequate.

Everywhere I look, everyone has these beautifully decorated and thoughtful homes for fall and I’m just over here like, “How did you ever find time to do that?” Not to mention, “How in the hell did you even come up with that?”

Rug / Ottoman / TV Stand / Botanical Prints / Wall Sconces (I painted mine gold.)

Don’t get me wrong – I think everyone who has those gorgeous fall homes, folks that are a part of this tour included, are just flat amazing. My hat is off to you. I bow down in your presence. I commend you. I am not worthy to be alongside you on this tour. Please tell me your secrets.

Sofa (similar) / Art Above Sofa / Blue Pillow / Mini Radio Flyer Wagon

I think on Pinterest there are approximately 3,263 gorgeous fall wreaths made of all sorts of things, 6,328 ways to decorate a pumpkin and no less than 2,846 beautiful fall mantels out there. I mean, those aren’t actual statistical numbers, just what my overwhelmed mind tells me.

I love most all of those thousands of fall decorating ideas. They are beautiful and those people who made them should get a damn fall decorating award. But as I browse through all that, I usually end up just wanting to find the closet corner to crawl into and cry. And if we’re being honest, probably drink too.

Wall Sconces (I painted mine gold.)

I feel like I’ve been in a bit of a slump lately, or maybe for the last few Falls, and it’s like my creativity in that department just hit a wall. I walk the seasonal aisles of all the local craft stores just hoping to get some spark of creativity and there’s nothing. Zero. Zip. Nada. The ship has sailed and I don’t know if it’s ever coming back home. I mean, I was never a brilliant fall decorator, but I’ve been coming up shorter a little more every year.

DIY Ribbon Wrapped Pumpkins

So I finally did the one thing that I know exactly how to do best.

I said screw it.

I didn’t come up with one single new fall craft or decorating idea or anything of the sort. I pulled out the painted pumpkins and fall garland from years past and threw ’em around.

And that was it.

It’s good enough.

DIY Glittery Fall Garland

When I start seeing real pumpkins around here to buy, I’ll get some of those too, and the Circus and I will paint them and carve them and glitter their stems. It won’t be anything groundbreaking, but we’ll have fun doing it and we’ll enjoy them.

And isn’t that all that really matters in the end?

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Next stop on the fall home tours today is Hymns and Verses!

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September 14, 2017
Fall Home Tour

I am not an elaborate fall decorator. I tried that once before. It stressed me out and nothing really looked that great, so I said to hell with it. So for the past couple of years, all I’ve really done in terms of fall decorating is toss a few painted pumpkins with glittered stems here and there. It’s worked out really well in my past fall decorating.

This year though, the Circus had other plans.

The painted pumpkins literally graced my living room, dining room and kitchen for no longer than her nap time one afternoon. She then woke up and proceeded to take every last pumpkin and spread them throughout her room. Besides the ones you see on the shelf above, she also lined five of them across the top of her headboard. However, after they continually kept falling on her head when she went to bed, she relinquished possession of those.

Luckily, her nap time was just long enough for me to at least get the pictures of the fall decorating, even though my house looks nothing like this now. In fact, you can see my real life home tour where I air all my dirty laundry here.

If you’re coming over from Debbie at Refresh Restyle, welcome! I just love Debbie to pieces. She has me laughing every time I see her and tells me how good I look. I really want her to be my mom, so I can call her up everyday and she can tell me that over and over again even if I am sporting a paint covered t-shirt. Also, Debbie is like a fall decorating queen, so in no way will my fall decorating live up to hers. Girl can rock a pumpkin like nobody’s business. I mean, did you see her Goodwill pumpkin makeover? Her pumpkin game is on point.

Without further ado, I present to you my fall home tour – before the Circus was awoken from her nap….

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More of the Dining Room / Wall Art / Chairs (similar) / Glass Dining Table / Rug

Y’all won’t believe this, but I was actually able to pull off a semi-decent tablescape this year.

Wall Art / DIY Ribbon Wrapped Pumpkins

Tablescapes have never been one of my strengths. This year though, I managed to get somewhat lucky and do a decent job of one.

Napkins / Plates

I used my purple napkins with green monogramming on top of my navy with green rims Kate Spade plates. We call those the Lambda Chi napkins as they are the colors of my husband’s fraternity. I did not realize what I had done when I had them monogrammed, but they made a big hit with Grunt Labor. I totally let him think I did it on purpose. #sneakysneaky

Acrylic Bud Vase Napkin R ings

The acrylic napkin rings were something I picked up in Charleston at the Indigo Market. They actually double as a bud vase. You can also find the same ones here.

DIY Ribbon Wrapped Pumpkins

I made those ribbon wrapped pumpkins from Dollar Tree pumpkins years ago. They are still one of my favorite little fall crafts. The vase is actually a brass pitcher from a thrift store. I tied in the colors of the napkins with the flowers. #watchmework

Wall Art / Elvis Bust (similar ones)

It wouldn’t be one of my fall tours without Elvis surrounded by pumpkins.

This year he opted for the burgundy ones.

Brass Unicorn (similar ones) / DIY Ampersand Pumpkin

The brass unicorn always demands a pumpkin during the fall as well. Therefore, another burgundy pumpkin and my DIY ampersand pumpkin graced her presence.

Free Gone with the Wind Quote Art + DIY Lucite Frame

In the kitchen, I just popped a couple of pumpkins beside my Gone with the Wind quote art.

But the thing I’m most excited about for fall….

More of the Den / Fur Throw / Zebra Rug / Malachite Side Table / Chesterfield Sofa / Red Boots

…is breaking out the red cowboy boots.

Up next in today’s tours is Heather from Setting For Four – she’s always got some goodies up her sleeve!

You can also see the full tour lineup below and catch up on any tours you might have missed!

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September 15, 2016
My Fall Home Tour: Take Two

If you saw my fall home tour a couple weeks ago, you may have noticed there wasn’t a pumpkin in sight.

I like to ease into fall.

Or maybe I hadn’t figured out where I stored the fall stuff last year…

Either way, Lindsay from The White Buffalo Styling Co. is hosting the Fall Edition of the Blogger Stylin’ Home Tours this week and asked me to join in, so I thought sure!

You’re actually forcing me to find those pumpkins, aren’t you?

If you are popping over from Caitlin at Desert Domicile, welcome! No kidding, I drool over everything that woman makes. If you don’t know her, you should. In fact, you should have known her yesterday. She’s that good.

Ok. I’m going to tell you my big secret for fall decorating.

Are you ready?

Seriously. Its top secret.

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Confetti Wall / Green Pillow

Pull out all those special treasures you’ve been storing away and decorate with them.

Like the blanket that was your dad and uncle’s when they were kids and your grandfather’s hat and your grannie’s guitar.

And then….

Ribbon Wrapped Pumpkins

…litter Dollar Tree pumpkins all around.

That’s the big secret.

Elvis Bust / Lip Print

Because they look good with anything…even an Elvis bust and lip watercolor print in front of an abstract circle wall.

Really. Could you ask for pumpkins to be anymore versatile?

Plaid Throw (similar)

You see, Dollar Tree pumpkins are only $1.

White Bust (similar) / Brass Unicorn (similar) / Sconce

And they look really cute painted with glittered stems.

So if you can’t find all your fall decorating items from last year, you can just spend $10 on Dollar Tree pumpkins.

DIY Ampersand Pumpkin / Gold Sphere

Not that that happened to me or anything.

I just may or may not be too lazy to haul all that stuff out.

If we’re being honest and all.

Donkey Print

So instead, we are making it rain with mini-painted pumpkins.

That’s how we roll…

Up next on the tour is The Chronicles of Home. You are going to love Jennifer’s home!

*Also, this post is in no way in partnership with the Dollar Tree – I just really like their pumpkins.

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September 22, 2015
Scalloped Pumpkins

I’ve ranted and raved over Frogtape®’s new chevron Shape Tape™. In fact, you may be sick of me going on and on about it and may be sick of seeing my ridiculously easy chevron tray and chevron witch hat.

But, now, I’m going to blow your mind with Shape Tape™ again.

Friends, let me introduce you to Frogtape® Scallop Shape Tape™.

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I’ll give you a second to collect yourselves.

Yep, not only is there chevron Shape Tape™, but there is also a scallop pattern, which is what I used to make these fabulous scalloped pumpkins.

Making these was, just like my chevron tray and witch’s hat, ridiculously simple.

I started out with the tape and two pumpkins.

One pumpkin is real and one is a faux one I picked up at a local craft store. We’ll start with the faux black one.

First, I put a band of Shape Tape™ around the middle of the pumpkin. Since this was a curved surface, you have to work in sections to keep it level, or from turning downward. After it was level, I pressed the tape down really well to remove any air bubbles.

I repeated this with two more bands of tape along the top and bottom of the pumpkin. However, with these I left half of the tape (on the top, the half going toward the stem, and on the bottom the half going toward the bottom) open. I wanted to keep this part black, so I put plastic wrap over those portions, then pressed the tape down around the plastic wrap.

With the real pumpkin, I put two bands of Shape Tape™ around the top and bottom, once more leaving half of it open where I could apply plastic wrap. I also turned this tape with the scallop points inward to change up the pattern a bit.

After I put the plastic wrap around the top and bottom, I pressed the tape down well again to remove air bubbles and spray painted both pumpkins purple. Just like regular FrogTape®, ShapeTape™ has PaintBlock® Technology which means when it meets paint, it forms a gel barrier to prevent paint bleed.

After spray painting the pumpkins, I removed the tape and plastic wrap. To snaz up the stems some, I added some glitter. I also added some gold embelishments to the pumpkins to “spook” them up a bit.

These fabulous pumpkins were so easy to make and took less than an hour! An easy and stylish Halloween craft!

Get more Halloween craft and DIY project ideas:

Easy DIY Halloween Decorations – easy, but with big impact!

Spooky Halloween Home Tour – we love Halloween and we do it up big around here!

Glittery DIY Witch Brooms – using stuff from the Dollar Tree!

DIY Skull Sconce – another one using items from The Dollar Tree!

October 16, 2013